Kuna Mola 1960s - Kit Kapp Collection - Medicine Sticks

Description

This design represents "Ina Suar" Kuna Medicine sticks, a very important part of Kuna culture. These wooden medicine sticks would be used in healing ceremonies where a healer known as an "Ina Tuledi" would rub the medicine sticks on a person where they were experiencing pain or illness. Help spread healing energy in your home with this mola. It measures 18w x 15.5h
The Kit Kapp Collection.
Kit Kapp was a cartographer who was hired to map the San Blas Islands in 1960. He quickly fell in love with the Kuna people and their art, and organized numerous lengthy expeditions to the islands over an 11 year period where he purchased thousands of molas and hundreds of Kuna nuchu carvings, as well as jewelry, basketry and other artifacts. In 1972 he published the seminal book
Mola Art of the San Blas Islands,
which is still one of the best reference books on the subject. Kit died in 2014. Between 1999 and 2016 we purchased the entire remainder of the Kapp Kuna collection.